October 5/6/7

October 5/6/7

Sat, Oct. 6 | 4:00 pm | 90 minutes

Sally Yates Talks with Jeffrey Toobin

Conscientious objector.

Politics and Nonfiction

Photograph by Ron Sachs / dpa picture alliance / Alamy

Sally Yates is a former Deputy Attorney General of the United States. She worked as a federal prosecutor for more than two decades, and then as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2017, after serving as acting Attorney General for a little more than a week, she was dismissed by President Trump for refusing to support Executive Order 13769, a ban on travellers from Muslim-majority countries. Last year, Yates was nominated for a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker, the chief legal analyst for CNN, and the author of seven books, including “The Run of His Life,” which was the basis for the 2016 FX miniseries about the O. J. Simpson murder case, and, most recently, “American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst.”